Posted by jojo on July 21, 2001, at 1:37:11
In reply to Re: Dopamine function in Social Phobia » jojo, posted by Neal on July 21, 2001, at 0:42:45
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> > Elizabeth and I are trying buprenorphine, she for about 7 months I think, and me for about 2 weeks.
> > It looks like neither of us has crashed yet, and I'm feeling pretty good. But "How Good is Good Enough?
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> Jojo - glad to hear that bup is helpful. I'm taking the Temgesic sublingual tabs and so far, so good (started a week ago).Several times in the past I've stopped taking SSRIs, which had been somewhat successful, because of their sexual side effects. It usually took 4-6 weeks to crash. The first week I generally felt better. So I'm not yet convinced of its effectiveness, and fearful about a crash They're really rough, but Elizabeth (or maybe it was the Biological Psychiatry abstract) says Buprenex can have an effect in as little as 1 hour, but maybe up to 3 days. I can do that standing on my head with one hand tied behind my back, but I am awaiting the outcome, and trying to figure out the difference
between and antidepressant effect and a "euphoric" effect ("euphoric" meaning normal mood, as opposed to "euthymic", which I think means mood which is not pathological. I think I can tell the difference if I have excessive hypomania (someone said that the goal is of course controlled hypomania), but coming from the down side, I'm not sure if I can tell "Normal". I can't compare it to my previous feelings, as I've been down so long it looks like up to me. Will I be as happy as George Bush or Bill Gates, and have the energy of Gates, at least. Bush, like Reagan, has so many handlers that it's hard to get any kind of picture of him that they don't which to project. He actually could be the shallow, "regular guy" image that they project. I'd still prefer to have dinner with Clinton or Gore, they'd be a lot more interesting, and there'd be less backslapping and showing whose The Man.
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